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Jen)
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Username: Jen10

Post Number: 5
Registered: 10-2010
Posted on Friday, December 17, 2010 - 08:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi all,

I will be donating my kidney to my brother at the end of the month. I'm curious to know of any women who have had pregnancies after donating their kidney. Were there any complications or issues during your pregnancy or labor? Also, did you have a OB/GYN with a background for treating women who are living kidney donors? My mother had maternal hypertension, and our nephrologist has warned me of that risk. I'm only 22, and I have hopes of becoming a mother in the future. I just hope this donation does not impose on my future plans. Please share, I would love to hear from you.

jen
Jack R
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Username: Jack_r

Post Number: 181
Registered: 08-2010
Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2010 - 05:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Good morning Jen,
I remember your original post and would ask that you contact the Transplant team and ask them that question and they may also know of a ob/gyn who has handled recipients as there are recipients who have gone through gestation.
I truly hope you find your answers and please let us know how the donation goes.
Hoping your dreams come true.
Cardiac history going back to 1993. Heart Transplant received in Oct. 2004. Interesting first year and have been very physically active ever since. I currently am pro-active with the SE PA. Gift of Life and a member of Johns Hopkins patient administered Heart Transplant Foundation.
Heather
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Username: Heather

Post Number: 3195
Registered: 05-2003
Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2010 - 06:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi Jen. I know of kidney donors having children after donating. I would think that they should be followed by someone who specializes in high risk pregnancies..esp. since you have a history of hypertension in your mother. I do not the ones I am thinking of who have had children are active here anymore.
Perhaps you can google pregnancy after living kidney donation. If you decide to google..let us know what you find out.

I do not think donating should keep you from having a family!! Just maybe a little higher risk.
Heather

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EC Illinois, USA
Kidney donor to dad 12/1/99
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes, Chicago

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sonia
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Username: Soniadonor

Post Number: 45
Registered: 03-2009
Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 09:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hello Jen, I donated at the age of 26 last year and was also concerned about pregnancies after donation because i have not had a family yet. Being a donor does NOT make your future pregnancies automatically high risk. Coincidentally, about a month after i decided I wanted to donate, the University of Minnesota released the very first long term study of pregnancies after organ donation. I want to say it was around January of 2009; I encourage you to search online for it. The Univ of MN is the leader in kidney donations and research. The university's hospital does the most transplants per year of any other facility in the world!

The biggest thing that i remember from reading the study was that women who have complications in pregnancy (that also were previously donors) had the same risk level as a person who did not donate. Complications were probably going to happen anyways for those individuals due to other factors.

Of course, everyone is different. YOu may be at risk for certain things simply because of your mother's health history.

My doctor said that my kidney donation is the kind of thing you tell your OB/GYN after you find out your pregnant, just so they can keep an eye out. But they test for diabetes and hypertension anyways for every pregnant woman, so it isn't like they have to do extra things for you just because you have one kidney.

Please continue to ask specific questions with your transplant team. Ask them what they know about last year's pregnancy study that released. Remember, everyone's bodies are different. Best of luck to you!!!!!!!!!
Non-direct kidney donor, Oct 2009
Minneapolis, MN, USA

"We exist temporarily through what we take but, we live forever through what we give." Douglas M. Lawson
livingdonor101
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Username: Livingdonor101

Post Number: 2
Registered: 03-2011
Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 04:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

There are a lot of unknowns in regards to pregnancy post-donation. A few studies have been conducted, however, and their results can be found here:

http://www.livingdonor101.com/risks.shtml
sonia
Member
Username: Soniadonor

Post Number: 46
Registered: 03-2009
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 08:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Study from University of Minnesota (facility does the most transplants of any facility in the world, therefore largest sample size and most accurate information available at this time)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747242/

"In regard to kidney donors, two small series suggested that pregnancy after kidney donation was not associated with an increased risk of adverse fetal or maternal outcomes"

Hope you find this helpful for your research! Read as much information as possible so that you are comfortable with your final decision.
Non-direct kidney donor, Oct 2009
Minneapolis, MN, USA

"We exist temporarily through what we take but, we live forever through what we give." Douglas M. Lawson

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